A death in a jar (California summer)

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A death in a jar (California summer)

bsquirrel

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0 posted 2002-09-05 01:32 AM

The companion to A death in the snow (California winter), never posted before.

Mike
A death in a jar (California summer)
I need your hand to lift me.
You must reach in your thumb.
Your thumb to dry my wings.

I'm dying between glass.
I've never tasted honey.
It's just my chewed, soft spit.

Do not lock the lid.
Lift me out, to find my way
from the lip of this mistake.

You put sugar in the water.
No, suffocating flower.
I'm directionless; unsure, undancing.

I was once a part of morning.
I wrote poems in the sky.
Free me to that paper.

I cannot test my wings.
The sun is water, honey.
A death as soft as light.

News_From_Nowhere
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since 2002-06-14

Posts 173
CU, NY

1 posted 2002-09-05 01:53 AM

"I'm dying between glass"
Perfect heart.
Sand to glass
Coal to diamond
Dying between either
Is still your eulogy.
Excellent, Bsquirrel!

"So give life to your dreams, for there lies your survival, and cast your heart beyond those faded scenes, and I'll bring you through the storm

bsquirrel

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2 posted 2002-09-05 12:12 PM

Thanks, News. Not bad for a poem about a bee dying, I guess.

Mike

WhileIWasGone
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since 2002-07-18

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3 posted 2002-09-05 09:43 PM

WOW I'm in awe....great work!

Enjoyed
DeaDiAmore

Martie

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4 posted 2002-09-05 10:29 PM

Mike

A sigh here...for the jarred, for freedom I think.

bsquirrel

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5 posted 2002-09-06 01:31 PM

Thanks DDA. And Martie,
yes, I think it is too.

Mikey

brian sites
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6 posted 2002-09-06 02:47 PM

"free me to that paper"
yesyesyesyesyesyes

bsquirrel

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7 posted 2002-09-06 03:22 PM

Zall
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since 2002-08-25

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8 posted 2002-09-06 07:38 PM

Nice topic,

Well written,

Zall

bsquirrel

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9 posted 2002-09-09 12:30 PM

Zall,
Thanks.

Mike

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